Žďár nad Sázavou description

Žďár nad Sázavou District (Okres Žďár nad Sázavou in Czech) is a district within the Vysočina Region (Vysočina) of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Žďár nad Sázavou, a town of 24.000 inhabitants built on the river Sázava. The district's landscape is very pictoresque, consisting of a highland of rolling hills around the rivers Sázava, Oslava, Svratka and Chrudimka, covered by deep forests, lakes and fields.The district's size is 1672 km² and is composed of 196 townships with 125.000 inhabitants. The majority of the population lives in villages, and in the towns of Žďár nad Sázavou, Bystřice nad Pernštejnem, Nové Město na Moravě, Svratka, Velká Bíteš and Velké Meziříčí.Žďár nad Sázavou is a city in Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has cca 24,000 inhabitants. It is the administrative capital of the Žďár nad Sázavou District. The city is the centre of tourism - in winter you can go skiing, in summer you can go cykling or bathing. There is very good transport situation, especially you can use direct train connection from Prague or Brno.